The Trossachs, tourist area in the Highlands of the Stirling council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland. In popular usage the name is applied to the rugged country extending west of Callander to Loch Katrine, but strictly it refers to that part of the glen between Loch Achray and the lower end of Loch Katrine. Much of its Victorian fame derived from the poet William Wordsworth’s tour in 1804 and the novelist Sir Walter Scott’s description in The Lady of the Lake and Rob Roy. Since 1919 the mountainsides have been extensively planted with conifers.

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council area, central Scotland. The area south of Loch Katrine and the River Forth lies within the historic county of Stirlingshire, and the area to the north belongs to the historic county of Perthshire. It borders Loch Lomond to the west and spans the Highland Boundary Fault, which separates the...

historic county of central Scotland, including a section of the Grampian Mountains in the southern Highlands and a portion of the northern Scottish Lowlands, centred on the city of Perth. Most of Perthshire lies within the council area of Perth and Kinross. The southwestern portion of the county is...